Refugees

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* Abuse began after seven killed in Nairobi bus attack * Police called refugees "terrorists" and extorted bribes By Katy Migiro NAIROBI, May 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenyan police tortured and abused more than 1,000 refugees, asylum seekers and Somali Kenyans in Nairobi in a "10-week rampage" beginning in late 2012, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Wednesday. The abuses were part of a police crackdown that began the day after an attack on a crowded bus in the Somali-dominated suburb of Eastleigh, which killed seven people, HRW said.

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Can Sezer BUKULMEZ, Turkey, April 6 (Reuters) - Syrian forces are pressing a military offensive and laying mines near the border with Turkey in an attempt to block a flow of refugees and supplies for insurgents, rebel activists and a Turkish official at the frontier said on Friday. Syrian army activity, visible across olive groves from the small Turkish border village of Bukulmez, comes days before a ceasefire deadline agreed by President Bashar al-Assad.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - More than 2,000 people fled violence in Syria to reach neighboring Turkey in the past two days, bringing the total number of Syrians who have sought refuge there to more than 50,000, Turkish authorities said on Thursday. The rate of refugee flows has risen and there are fears there could be an exodus from Syria's biggest city Aleppo, where there is heavy fighting between PresidentBashar al-Assad's forces and rebel fighters. There were 50,227 Syrians in Turkey as of Thursday, after 2,219 people crossed the border on Aug 8-9, the state-run Disaster and Emergency Administration said in a statement.

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday expelled a Sudanese diplomat it suspected of spying on refugees from the African country in Norway. The diplomat, who was not named, had received information from a 38-year old Sudanese man arrested earlier on Tuesday for espionage, the Norwegian Police Security Service said. The charge d'affair at Sudan's embassy had visited the Foreign Ministry for a meeting on the subject, said Kjetil Elsebutangen, a ministry spokesman.

(Adds refugee comments, colour) * Some refugees adrift in boats on border river * U.N. agency urges Bangladesh to help refugees (Adds refugee comments, colour) GENEVA, June 15 (Reuters) - An unknown number of people fleeing sectarian violence in Myanmar's Rakhine region are adrift in boats on the Naf River and some have been turned back by Bangladeshi border authorities, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. "The U.N. refugee agency has first-hand, credible accounts of boats from Myanmar not being enabled to access Bangladeshi territory.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Lebanon has become the third of Syria's neighbors after Turkey and Jordan to register more than 100,000 refugees from Syria's civil war, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday. In all, more than 358,000 Syrians fleeing the 19-month-old conflict have registered in four neighboring states, includingIraq, and tens of thousands more have fled but not sought international assistance, it said. Lebanon has seen its own Syrian-related unrest, exacerbated by the assassination last week of a senior intelligence officer who had pursued evidence of Syrian attempts to destabilize Lebanon.

* Hungary wrongfully uses detention by default -UN * UNHCR reports violence, abuse in detention * Gov't says most immigrants are transit, without documents By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 23 (Reuters) - Hungary has gone from being a safe haven for thousands of refugees during regional conflicts to a country that imprisons many asylum seekers instead, a United Nations agency said on Tuesday. "It's a very sad thing that refugees who flee for very good reasons, and may have seen prison bars from inside before, the first thing that happens to them when they cross the European Union's border in Hungary, they end up in detention and see prison bars from inside again," Gottfried Koefner, regional director for the UNHCR, told Reuters.